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| From | "Stewart Mason" <craigtorso@verizon.net> |
| Subject | Re: Phoenix? |
| Date | Tue, 17 Nov 2009 00:37:02 -0500 |
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From: "Michael Coxe" <popville@gmail.com>
> When I first heard Phoenix, my immediate reaction was "the
> best Scandinavian band I'd heard in years" --- tho of course
> they're French. Funny, Phoenix articles on the net reference
> The Strokes & French electronica bands Daft Punk and Air,
> but nary a reference to the career killer "power-pop". But I
> continue to hear heavy immersion into in Swedish & Norwegian
> power-pop (along with a healthy dose of electro, esp. the
> earlier records). Heh.
Well, to be fair, there are direct connections to Air and Daft Punk:
they're all out of the same hometown scene, one of the Phoenix guys
was in an early lineup of Daft Punk and an early lineup of Phoenix
also served as Air's live band circa MOON SAFARI.
I get what you're saying about the Scandinavian influence, but the
main thing I hear in Phoenix is the Blur wing of the mid-'90s Britpop
bands.
S
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